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Posted on 06/10/2026 2:54:57 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
The foul odor of TDS is definitely in the air when the editor of the Washington Monthly, published on the pages of Friday's Atlantic magazine website, can somehow connect the actions of an enraged Democrat congressman in 1856 caning anti-slavery Republican Senator Charles Sumner on the floor of the Senate to President Donald Trump.
The author of the hit piece incorporating an incident from a couple of centuries ago is careful to discount the idea of making historical comparisons but that was exactly what Rob Wolfe did in "The Vicious Beating That Reshaped America."
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What a good job you've done here.
Brooks was tempted to challenge Sumner to a dual, but after checking in with another Southerner, he came to understand that a challenge could only go to an equal, a gentleman. As Brooks saw it, Sumner by his language was not a gentleman. Thus the caning.
“The Civil War” is a BS name. Total BS.
It was the First Democrat vs. Republican War.
Improving from being Hitler !
Very different parties from today
Yeah, thanks to LBJ.
The Atlantic should know better then this because Democrat history books are not allow to go back before 1870. If they did they would have to mention slavery and which party kept slaves and which.party fought and died to end slavery.
Very different parties from today
Not too sure about that...
South Carolina, the chief troublemaker.
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